02193cam a2200325 i 4500 623788190 TxAuBib 20021104120000.0 070111s1998||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 97032891 9780890968093 16.95 0890968098 16.95 DLC eng rda DLC DLC TxAuBib rda La Vere, David. Life Among the Texas Indians : The WPA Narratives / by David La Vere. First edition. College Station : Texas A&M University Press, 1998. xvii, 270 p : illustrations ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Elma Dill Russell Spencer Foundation series in the West and Southwest ; ; 18 Includes bibliographical references and index. Historian David La Vere has culled from the Indian-Pioneer Histories housed in the Indian Archives of the Oklahoma Historical Society in Oklahoma City a wealth of vivid detail about life among the former Texas Indian peoples. The oral histories that make up this collection were gathered during the Great Depression by the Works Progress Administration. From the 112 bound volumes that resulted, La Vere has gathered all the material pertinent to the Indians who came from Texas into an exceptional picture of the details of daily life - war and raiding, hunting and planting, foodways, dress, parties and spiritual practices, education, health, and housing. La Vere sets the stage for the ethnographic detail with a lively, readable history of the succession of peoples who lived in Texas from the Paleo-Indian era until the present. It is a clear overview of the basic social structures of the tribes and the relations among tribes and, later, of the Indians with the Europeans who came to the region. 20021104. Indians of North America Texas. Indians of North America Indian Territory. Elma Dill Russell Spencer Foundation series in the West and Southwest ; ; 18. TXKPL